Although social media channels have been skint in terms of coverage of today’s 7.1 earthquake in China, Google has just launched a People Finder app in an attempt to aid victims of the disaster.
A massive earthquake hit northwest China’s Qinghai Province early this morning, killing more than 500 and injuring more than 10,000, according to the American Red Cross. Ninety percent of the houses in the region collapsed.
However, if you were to go to Twitter or YouTube now, you would find nary a citizen video or TwitPic of the event unfolding (we’ve contacted both YouTube and Twitter to be sure, but our own searches turned up nothing).
The reason behind this dearth of content is quite obvious: Google Read Full Article
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